MIDWIVES at the centre of a Tameside Hospital blunder which led to the death of a three-day-old baby no longer work there, it's been revealed.

Last week an inquest heard how tiny Olivia Dowling's body was flooded with 25 times more dextrose - a type of sugar solution - than it should have been in the hospital's neo natal unit in 1999.

Adrian Griffiths, director of surgical services of the acute trust, confirmed midwives Jillian Booker and Jacqueline Lee - who were helping to care for Olivia when the incident happened - no longer worked at the hospital, but he refused to comment further.

Mr Griffiths said the hospital had learned a great deal from Olivia's tragic death.

He added: "The trust accepts the coroner's criticism of the poor standard of the hospital's note keeping.

"The trust also wishes to reiterate its sincere apologies to Olivia's parents."

He said the trust endeavoured to learn further from this tragedy and had immediately launched an independent inquiry which recommended several changes in procedure including information packs for locum doctors - a locum doctor hadn't been aware of certain procedures while caring for Olivia, the inquest heard - and revised methods of incident reporting.